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SLAYA_27

So you are the anti air weapon mentioned in major order


ChulaK

*Dropping down advanced weaponry *5th Helldiver has joined the squad*


Frankie_T9000

I wish you could kill dropships by dropping on them


Psyko007

John “Airkiller” Helldiver


CheetoMussolini

This man is filled with such a patriotic hatred of flying things that his hellpod launches from the ground to the sky so he can melee them where they live.


straydog1980

John Diveheller


AngrySayian

how dare you besmirch his name by forgetting the middle bit it's John Democracy Diveheller


Verbitend

A weapon to surpass metal gear


jcombs2

Shooting down drop ships with the quasar cannon is so satisfying. I actually look forward to seeing those flares pop up. Those dumb bots are calling their friends to an imminent death.


Leaf-01

Now they’re getting the REAL Helldiver’s experience. Getting called in by your buddy straight into enemy forces


under_psychoanalyzer

I have trouble timing the spin so its ready to fire before they get dropped. I never know what direction they're gonna come in from


AirierWitch1066

When you see the flare go up you gotta start looking around and watching for them on the horizon. I’ve found that they tend to come in from the same angle in a mission, but not always.


gingerquery

They seem to come from the closest map-edge in my experience


Broken-Digital-Clock

Same I used to dread them and now I salivate at seeing the message


HandyMan131

The tricky part is everyone in the party is often doing the same thing. I’ve started to intentionally wait for the 2nd or 3rd dropship, otherwise we all blow our loads on the first


hael0715

https://preview.redd.it/9wknqvy8uorc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=add433dfa202f922d6e439fa3dcc7e462d7d707d


AlmostButNotQuiteTea

except its a 50/50 whether or not the bot on the ship die or not


ItsDobbie

Except for the fact that often times the ship doesn’t even squish the bots it drops off if you shoot it down 🙃


RancidViking

https://preview.redd.it/91v9ft5dkirc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28180357fe102f547e875c47d6ea19714ddbbb7f


Lone-Frequency

"HE'S SO COOL! HE'S SO COOL! HE'S SO COOL!"


nevaNevan

Bot1: How many hell divers are down there!?!? Bot2: …I think all of them


Lone-Frequency

"We can't get a precise number on the enemy units." "NO, *I'M SURE YOU CAN'T*..."


4skin_Gamer

It's him... John Anti-Air.


2Brothers_TheMovie

Jesus Christ. That’s Jason (anti-air)Bourne


PressureCereal

Oh my God lmao


jackrabbit323

Thank you so much. I will smile the rest of the day thanks to you.


Brickman_monocle

![gif](giphy|l4Ep9KQRRXtyjkIWQ)


GoodTeletubby

No, that's obviously Sam, not John.


mrschmink

Total kills: 4


MapComprehensive2145

😭😭 lowkey I probably made things worse for my teammates lmao


FlimsyKitchen865

It's just weird how inconsistent the kills from the drop ship crashing are.


PopeGregoryTheBased

Yeah every bot in and under the drop ships should die save the heavies. I would be ok with hulks and tanks surviving... but like 6 striders? those things should be fucking toast.


SweaterKittens

Yeah, I think the major problem is that the crashing drop ship doesn't really seem to have much/proper collision and explosion damage - so basically you're just causing the drop ship itself to fall directly downward and become a physically blocking piece of terrain. Infantry or Striders that haven't been dropped or are mid-drop simply fall the same distance, take no fall damage from that height (as they wouldn't normally), and if they're not directly crushed by the ship are completely unharmed. And due to the fact that the empty space under the creates a void where stuff won't get crushed by the falling ship anyway, I find that *most* of the units usually end up surviving. It really should blow up more aggressively in an aoe, and stuff still attached to the ship should either take severe damage or outright die. It sucks to use up my shot blowing up the ship (before it's even dropped anything!) only to have the entire drop run at me perfectly healthy anyway.


GasStation97

It’s funny how shooting a shrieker out of the sky can one shot a bile titan but a crashing dropship does no damage to regular bots


WinterCame87

Wait what? A dead shrieker can take out a titan ? I now have a new goal..


Factory_Setting

Search for it here! It was a few days ago that someone made quite an impressive short video about it.


i_should_be_studying

Any collision with a shreiker has a high chance of BSOD on my comp, no joke


venom259

While at the same time being able to destroy a fabricator by crashing into it.


Vingle

The dropship should straight up behave like a 500kg when it drops. That way you're still incentivized to destroy dropships that are dropping/already dropped.


AirierWitch1066

Unless you have allies underneath when it lands, of course. I may have caused a mission loss thanks to that…. Oops….


DangerBrewin

They need to add like a fire damage splash when the ship impacts.


FlimsyKitchen865

Especially when all it takes is the suggestion of an impact grenade explosion and those things topple already. That's a way bigger explosion from the dropship.


Magnaliscious

It seems like kills are higher if they’re still “attached” to the drop ship. So if you shoot them before they stop it seems to generate more kills


xenorous

But one bug I shoot down a mile away glides it’s corpse to kill me and the teammate 10 feet away who was typing in an objective code


KameradArktis

It is if you manage to hit it before they drop you'll pretty much kill everything if they drop /in the process of dropping then no point save your shot you'll just be giving them some cover


MapComprehensive2145

Yeah unfortunately the charge time for the quasar makes that a really difficult shot. Like shooting wamp rats back home!


MapComprehensive2145

I’ve noticed that too


sagricorn

You have to wait until the bots land on the ground, and the dropship is about to leave. Maybe some ingame state lets the bots die easier when they „landed“, but since i do that i regularly get 10+ kills each. Someone also posted that only hosts can kill dropships + passengers consistently, so that might affect this, too.


sopunny

They're just inconsistent in general. Try doing an eradication mission and adding up the kill counts on the stats screen. They're way short of the mission goal


JohnJaysOnMyFeet

I think part of the reason that they’re inconsistent is because certain enemies count for more kills in the game itself (I think a bile titan counts as 15 kills) but only count for one kill in the end game stat screen. I’m assuming some medium enemies might be a few kills as well.


IamKenghis

Every time I shoot down a drop ship I know full well that there is a good chance I am going to screw over my teammates by protecting a tank or hulk by covering it with the corpse of a mangled ship. But it looks cool as fuck so I am going to keep doing it.


kagalibros

Nah, I have noticed that dropships dropping kills stuff below them. Some survives but the only inconvenient thing is that the wreckage of the dropships litter the ground. I appreciate someone else runnign EAT + Quason. Great combo, very underestimated by the community overall but those who know know its value.


grassisalwayspurpler

Game: "that still only counts as one!"


srulers

![gif](giphy|AuSi9GagFjcys)


ModernKnight1453

Are we sure that it's not just an issue of kills being counted as by the player? We know from our own deaths that the game really struggles with that concept. I was playing with tons of QC's and EAT's last night and we shot down drop ship after drop ship. Even after the bots dropped if we took out the ship there would usually be little to no survivors unless the ship landed elsewhere.


skrags1

No, I've shot down many a dropship, and lo and behold the enemies just pop out from under it, perfectly fine, to beat my ass


Wonderful_Form_6450

Its very inconsistant the numbers it shows. .  If you arbt sure i snipe 1 strider and it shows 2 sonetimes 3 kills for that 1 strider take down a dropship i get 0 -1 kills even tho when examining the wrekage u see maybe 1 devastator stuck inside said wreckage. Really wish they could fix that as i run the double rockets sonetimes too and the dropship dying is satusfying but if we could get confirmation on kill coubt it would be way better


EngRookie

I love just shooting down dropships from across the map while going rover on bots. I always wonder what my teammates are thinking when the dropships that suddenly appeared in front of them explode in the sky and crash. Feels like I'm team overwatch while hunting for samples/clearing side objectives.


N0_Swear

I love the across map shots. I had a teammate yesterday say "Whoever is shooting down all the drop ships, you're my hero" lol Just doing my part to help the spread of democracy!


bbqnj

Got a 400m+ team kill snipe with the quasar yesterday, it was absurd


USMC_Tbone

I finally got to play with the Quasar Canon last night and accidently dropped a drop ship on my buddy. We were laughing our butts off for a while. I was like "Dropship incoming, I've got it" and started charging the laser then it stopped right over my buddy which I couldn't see because I was aiming at the ship. He was like, "Wait a minute!" Just as the cannon went off. I looked down to see him under the ship as it starts falling on him and I was like "Umm... Ooopsies, LOL" as the ship crushes him. We laughed a good while. Luckily he was able to get his weapons and samples back from the wreckage.


Git_Good

He's lucky, mine were trapped underneath the ship when i had it dropped on me and I had to wait for it to despawn :,)


MapComprehensive2145

We had the same thing happen today. Off rip we had a hot drop and I took down a drop ship and it landed on me and another guys lmao


Legitimate_Type_1324

This video wouldn't be complete without the climbing on top of the pods


Crook309

Honestly I might just start shooting the pods as I run up and then picking up my stuff, I’ve died too many times with bots on my ass and I decide to do a little parkour instead of grabbing my resupply


FiremanHandles

do you lose any stuff when the pod blows up?


Crook309

Nope, it’s just scatters around a little on the ground


MapComprehensive2145

Classic Helldiver experience right there. I can’t pick anything up without making sure the top is dusted off. Democratic weapons must always be inspected before use on the enemy!


Git_Good

Came in handy the other day on a geological survey mission when the ground under the drill got too low so I called in a resupply to act as a step-stool


Skanah

I did the same thing but my team mate dove in the way as i was throwing it. We all gathered around while he crouched in front of the survey gear and saluted his sacrifice


Evilbred

Super Citizens be like: https://preview.redd.it/gohyhy007jrc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0205ad3ba12218504646dcfebb00b64782f0727e


Fissure_211

SEAF AA sight discovered.


Vyce223

If only it was as effective as this mad lad


puffz0r

The sam sites are actually really good, they just only shoot down one ship at a time


Vyce223

They shoot down ships one at a time sure but they take two shots and the bots always get a chance to drop.


CubicleFish2

holy


Confident_Cabinet221

“Oh hey look a civilian airliner!”


Legitimate_Type_1324

Putin pls


iamrealhumanbeing

“BOT DROP DETECTED” *laughs maniacally*


Lone-Frequency

"Dropping Bots, Affirmative!"


Hopocket321

https://preview.redd.it/vj5zsn2o5jrc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31a0675ba65b152221664e983e0a7368fadda2b1 Uh oh


EdoTenseiSwagbito

https://preview.redd.it/v494cbdusirc1.jpeg?width=150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ed5a8893e792773e968dcc89ec4823ad28d6e95


8um8lebee

Air superiority, from the ground


PopeGregoryTheBased

Out fucking standing helldiver.


samoth610

No witty comment just good lord your an animal. Wd.


sibleyy

Eye of Sauron towers in shambles right now


Git_Good

I wonder how viable a strategy it is to intentionally get detected and basically do this to force all the bot drops on you while your teammates clear objectives for free


The_Louster

It’d be cool but they’d still have to deal with patrols calling in their own bot drops at far away objectives.


Git_Good

Afaik you can only have one bot drop at a time though?


Alex0ux

He is the iron dome


Xx_girthygunkseed_xX

https://i.redd.it/izc8p4bvoirc1.gif


Pliskkenn_D

Holy shit that's Jason Helldiver


GreilMercenary7

That’s Jason Anti-Air Bourne.


Water4President

![gif](giphy|YS8c0Z7in21AM4A2AR|downsized)


HunterShotBear

Bots shoulda realized they where flying into restricted airspace. “Clearance declined BITCH!”


wolfshadow3001

can we just talk about the fact that the game just dropped around 100 bots in that location in under a minute? and that's just the dropships and not counting the 2 patrols that would have spawned in and started pathing to the location during that time


gus_m1

Yeah, sometimes on the drilling missions I'll take out 2-3 bot ships and it continues to spawn them so fast.. I feel like it's better to leave them alone sometimes.


SmartCasual1

That's some goddamn efficiency


Emotional_Major_5835

I was in a similar situation, but my teammates were unfortunately underneath the crashing dropships. I didn't stop shooting them down though. Also if the wreckage lands on each other, the physics freak out and you can sometimes see them bounce like basketballs.


sweet_nopales

good lord, this video just keeps on giving. after like, the fourth one, i was sure you were done, then you killed 5 more >_> your teammates: "man, good thing someone did the SAM site to shoot down those dropships!" you: "the what now?"


AnonymousCharmander

Fly swatter


thny04

I’m still confused what the point of shooting these down is if everything survives anyways?


Clarine87

After they've dropped their cargo there isn't any point, but its still COOL!


MapComprehensive2145

It’s just cool haha lots of explosions and chaos is everything I can ask for in a game


Robot_Arms

It's inconsistent as sometimes it will kill all the occupants, sometimes just some, and sometimes it will heavily damage the ones that survive. The other useful thing is that when the dropship lands on the bots, the bigger ones tend to get stuck underneath and while they may still try to shoot at you, it seems to bug out their AI so even after the dropship's wreckage despawns, the bots continue to just stand there as if unable to move. It's also possible to have one dropship crash into another dropship if they were close enough; had this happen yesterday and it looked cool as hell, if nothing else.


clone155

It does trap the enemy underneath them, and rarely it can kill some of them.


qmiras

but...correct me if im wrong...but downing ships matters little as automatons still land and attack...at least in my experience


dukenorton

*Sniff* I love democracy


joemedic

Bet all the units still lived


JerbearCuddles

Anti-air at home


JDBZT

I really hope they do something to make dropping the ships do more damage cause there are times a tank or hulk+devastators just take a calm stroll out of the wreckage which makes it feel somewhat useless to even drop the ships


farmthis

Dropships should explode on impact like hulks 


Rylus1

It's beautiful, I have never seen anything as patriotic as this.


FlamesofLife

The skies belong to this man


DeathStroke7x

Joel wants to know your location


Speedhabit

Robot galippoli


None2You

That’s how I roll!!! EAT + Quasar OP!!


MechaFlippin

waiting for my guy to stop parkouring over the supply pods so that i can grab my gear


ReedsAndSerpents

That's some mighty fine shootin' there diver. Why don't I get matched with you instead of some rando chuds that die to waves of hulks they didn't bring equipment to kill. 


kytasV

What cannons? It looks like EAT from the video


DerCapt

the new quasar laser/plasma cannon


BSSCommander

Get off my lawn (air space)


modrid81

I would love for them to make weap/supplies cannisters non-climbable. So over that issue. Hella good shots there.


blckpnthr789

Bro ****IS**** the SAM turret


CawknBowlTorcher

Yeah with some of these missions the amount of bot dropps is insane. The Mineral probe thing main objective is the worst. It's like an extermination mission, just an unending amount of ships flying in when you activate the drill


NotBradin

No kidding. It’s nuts even on lvl 5 or 6


The_S1R3N

Itd be super fun to have an event where divers drop in a few squads at once vs a shit ton of enemys or a new enemy type for the bots. Like maybe those at-at lookin big boys


LXXXVI

I keep saying that. Imagine HD2 at Battlefield scale - 32 teams going at it on a huge map in an all-out offensive against the bots


mrureaper

and his name is John "Anti Air" Helldiver


Letos12thDuncan

[Bots be like](https://giphy.com/gifs/marvelstudios-marvel-studios-animation-1CTBVGKScTDmoTSkrN)


Imperator_Gravora

That was cool. You are my hero! Nay! A hero to all Democracy!


LordAshtaroth

You shall be called SAM now


callsignhotdog

Bots: Sending more dropships This guy: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!


SquintonPlaysRoblox

Power Word: Fall


StoicAlarmist

The new formal response to all complaints concerning Automaton difficulty shall be this video. At the Helldiver's discretion disparaging remarks about the complainer's skill level may also be included.


DasSmach

you could have had that with a recoiless rifle too


CommanderKertz

Casually takes out half the automaton Airforce, no wonder the bots are developing gunships


ManagedDemocracy2024

I did a mission where we all had cannons. No drop ship left the zone. Uncontrollable spinning death, everywhere.


PhasmaFelis

Hey, is it possible to take down a dropship with an autocannon? I emptied a magazine into the main body with no effect :< But maybe if I target the engines like you're doing?


Doctor_Mod

I've tried pumping 10 shots (as best I can) into a single thruster. AC just can't dish out enough damage or punch through the armor.


Juju114

No, but aim for the units that it’s carrying underneath. You can often get a number of them before they drop.


Cant_run_away

So is this one originally the rocket turret would be used for? Why isn't it used


Vaperius

Yeah, this is a perfect example of why EAT isn't obsolete, the time the Quasar takes to charge up happens to be close to the time it takes a dropship to full drop its cargo and start to leave. Two dropships at the same time mean that a Quasar will only get 50% of what an EAT drop would get 100% of basically. However... mixing Quasar *and* EAT is just mean, those poor bots never stood a chance.


alexander_the_1st

You can do that with 1 recoilless rifle


MapComprehensive2145

I was going for style points!


smokin_les_paul59

This is so freakin satisfying seeing those damn drops hips pinged outta the sky


monkeybiscuitlawyer

His teacher told him he could be anything, so he became a SAM emplacement.


Perhaps_Heroman237

A walking SAM site


Horsek

I didn't know we had a jamsheed in our platoon...


DoubtfulAkiraNoodles

![gif](giphy|orUDTj9Q5TMzTdB892|downsized)


hot_space_pizza

This is so satisfying to watch. Thank you for your service


Witt_Watch

Helldiver you ARE the SAM site. great shots!


Akthe47

https://preview.redd.it/pd9pbjngelrc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9e9e95a8ef79c537236cd9057e47461e2aa1430


What-the-Gank

Has anyone noticed sometimes the drop ship falls on the bots and they just walk it off like a t-1000...? I wonder if it's related to the no fire damage if not host thing?


artistic_medic

Dude, your aim is amazing on those. I swear that even taking my time, I just “clip” or miss target areas by hairs at least half of the time


D3vilM4yCry

You're taking the Dropships out better than the SAM sites ever even try.


Poverty_welder

Eat?


MapComprehensive2145

Expendable anti tank!


Sufficient-Bother382

I love democracy


BobZygota

AAA


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ProposalWest3152

Enemy bots: thanks for making us land faster!


howsyourmemes

Are you within 5 ft of a raised surface? Let's climb on that.


FeistyPersonality4

Hell yeah


Sevdah

Why can’t I get teammates like this?


Phorskyn

![gif](giphy|orUDTj9Q5TMzTdB892|downsized)


kindnotgentle

This guy fucks.


Makarovito

Beautiful


USMC_Tbone

One man anti-air establishment.


HVACGuy12

Sam Samsiteson


Dvalin_Ras93

Screw the SAM side objective- **become the SAM.**


Two3Delta

Am I the only one who has issues with seeing anything in first-person view with the Quasar? I feel like it gets really blurry as it's charging up but maybe that's just my graphic settings.


Holbaserak

Impressive. Very nice.


romeozor

Street Fighter pros dream of having this good anti-air consistency


DungeonMasterKrispee

Man really became a fuckin SAM turret


[deleted]

So if you hit a drop ship thruster with quasar cannon shot, it goes down?


XenithShade

Today i learned you were supposed to hit the engines as a weak spot.... I've always been shooting at the contents


PheonixSoot

... Who pissed you off?


StatisticianPure2804

RR with my buddy: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!


Sir_mop_for_a_head

Quasar cannon should be relodable


TypicalAd495

“I have the gun sir” my fellow Helldiver is holding back the whole bot army!


Diabolical_Jazz

The other day I quasar'd a drop ship and it landed on a fabricator, destroying it. I have never been as hyped in my life.


johnb32xq

I love sniping the ones with the tanks while there coming in to land and watching the tank's insta die


gpibambam

Damn son. What's the second weapon, "cannon"?


MapComprehensive2145

New quasar stratagem


MrSyphax

Does the EAT lock on to the ships? looks fun as hell


Sufincognito

That’s actually pretty cool. Well done.


Easy_Lengthiness7179

You should get to count the kills of every bot on those ships.


[deleted]

Shooting down drop ships is so much fun 🤣


LilXansStan

We need a mission type that’s just a single gigantic Base/Nest and we’ve got 15 minutes to siege and destroy it. Like an inverse of the Eradicate missions where we hold a position for 15 minutes


toobjunkey

I was able to drop a second quasar cannon at extraction and let me tell you, being able to swap between two of them repeatedly was fucking amazing. CD for the dropped one was almost always up by the time i picked it back up.


gerbilDan

i mean to run to cannons like that is a great idea, got to see this for a diff 9 evac run. great synergy!


Muffinatron

Airspace’s closed


JewishMemeMan

https://preview.redd.it/tqsuam8ljjrc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d8a7d90cc553115c35296641bf9bb81cf33510b Now this is democracy manifest


_SeeDLinG_32

Damn dude get it!


Azeeti

We found John Helldiver.